COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum
announced that on December 6, 2018, 40 year-old Steven Horton was sentenced by
U.S. District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 84 months of imprisonment, to be
followed by ten years of supervised release. Horton pled guilty to accessing
child pornography on July 24, 2018.
Operation Pacifier was an investigation conducted by the FBI
into Playpen, a website on The Onion Router (TOR) hosted as hidden service.
Playpen operated as a message-board type of website where registered users
would distribute and share images and videos of child pornography. Horton
registered with Playpen on October 27, 2014, and Horton was actively logged
into Playpen for more than 21 hours between the October 27, 2014, and February
28, 2015.
This matter was investigated by Iowa Department of Public
Safety Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) and the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI), and the case was prosecuted by the United States
Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.
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